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"Using sourced internal memos and lists of parolees KCRA was able to determine that the 3-phase program would review everyone from minor offenders to those accused of the most violent offenses were in a hurried review that would end before July of next year. If the prison system doesn’t discharge them, the warrants all end up in the hands of the county."